Travel Blogs from New York City

... an odd day. If the weather had been better I could have gone through Immigration about an hour earlier and then headed off into New York for a bit of a mooch around. However, the rain has been so persistent and heavy, that that wasn't an option. Luckily, tomorrow's forecast looks considerably better for when I meet up with family friends for lunch. (It's a good job it was postponed from today. I don't think I'd have made ...

... all trying to get photos at the front and back of it. Apparently you have to rub the nose, horns and testicles of the bull for good luck.

In the afternoon we boarded the Staten Island Ferry complete with cinnamon covered Churros to see the Statue of Liberty. John had great fun taking hundreds of pictures playing around with the special effects on his new camera.

... We walked straight in, had a bit of airport style security, walked walked walked walked where lines could potentially be and never stopped until we hit the elevators to go up!!! Lucky we didn't waste our money on upgrading to miss the hour and a half "line"...... We stopped on a floor to go from one elevator to a second elevator. When we walked out there was a big statue of King Kong! Riley ran up to it and put his hand in its mouth, and I told him to leave it alone, ...

... aside. Our guide on the Uptown tour was a very lively and very knowledgeable chap from Columbia or somewhere similar who had lived in New York for 16 years and he was very proud to tell us that he is one of the 40% of New Yorkers who are recent immigrants to the country. Those with an Irish background are the biggest group closely followed by people from Puerto Rico. The tour took us north up Broadway past the statue of Christopher Columbus towards the massive Lincoln ...

... Central Park and soaked up a bit of sun. The park is massive for saying it's situated in the city centre and has a lot of lakes and big open spaces. Other than that, I was still unwell and exhausted. So I just headed back and rested up. We headed over to Rafael's apartment in queens from now on. Thursday came, unfortunately it was hammering it down with rain! So I made this the day I visited the 9/11 memorial and museum at the World ...